Lego Visitor Center Breaks Ground, and You Can Build a Model at Home

Block-laying has begun on Lego's new experience center in Denmark.

Good news, Lego maniacs: This week construction began on Lego's new "experience center" in Billund, Denmark, the town where the building blocks were invented in 1932. Better news: You don't have to wait until 2016 (or book a plane ticket) to get a sneak preview of the structure since the company has introduced a Lego Architecture kit of the structure, Gizmodo reports.

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The Danish architecture firm BIG designed the building with a base of six Lego-shaped foundation stones, which were laid at the groundbreaking. "Lego proportions are really the golden ratio of architecture," BIG founder Bjarke Ingels tells Dezeen. "I think for testing ideas quickly it can be quite powerful."

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